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Climate Change - Asia

Small Minivet. Photo: Vivekpuliyeri, Wikimedia

As elsewhere in the BirdLife Partnership, much of the Asia Partnership’s work to track, mitigate and adapt to climate change is based on the Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) network. The Partnership is working to ensure that adaptive management approaches incorporating IBAs and the ecoystem services they provide locally, national and regionally are defined, recognised and implemented by all Asian countries which are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Partnership is also working to ensure that more countries in the region participate in influencing international climate change agreements, to strengthen mitigation measures and incorporate ecosystems-based adaptation. It will conduct assessments of the impacts of biofuels on IBAs and other key habitats of birds and wider biodiversity.

The Philippine Eagle is the world’s largest eagle, the “King of the Birds” in the Philippines, is threatened with extinction. The most serious threat that it faces is the loss of its habitat due to commercial logging, agricultural encroachment, timber extraction mining and slash-and-burn farming, resulting to a fragmented and heavily reduced lowland forest habitats.

With a modest grant from the Bird Fair organized by the BirdLife International, the conservation activities of the White Shouldered Ibis in Western Siem Pang such as the habitat monitoring, nest protection, education and awareness-raising, are supported.